Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., will appoint Democratic Sens. Patty Murray of Washington, Max Baucus of Montana, and John Kerry of Massachusetts to the new super committee tasked with finding $1.2 trillion in additional deficit reduction by November 23, according to a senior Democratic aide familiar with Reids decision, which is expected to be made public as early as Wednesday.

Additionally, Murray is expected to co-chair the committee, officially named the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, along with a still unnamed House Republican. A spokesman for Reid did not respond to a request for comment.

Reids decision to tap Murray will likely be met with scrutiny, as she is also chairing the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the 2012 election cycle. But she is also a member of leadership, a senior member of the Budget Committee, and a woman on what is likely to be a male-dominated committee.

McCain, Snowe, and in a show of bi-partisanship they’ll ask Ben Nelson to fill in as the 3rd “Republican”. Then we’ll get taken to the cleaners, GOP will claim victory, and the Dems will say the GOP slit the throats of the elderly.

The dims put up the biggest partisan kooks they could find.
Don’t forget the purpose for the supercommittee. When the committee can’t agree on a deal, the automatic triggers kick in, defunding medicare and the military. They want to defund medicare so that the repubs can be blamed. They want to defund the military because they want to further weaken this country. That is the dims ultimate goal and the repubs are walking right into their trap.

and Oboma can claim the economy belongs to the Republicans from that point on.

This whole committee was a set up. Because this is a center right country, and the tax slaves are already over taxed, the TEA party members should be chosen, and should work only on behalf of the taxpayers. They have to speak for the majority, or they'll lose.Because the socialists will NEVER agree to putting the freeloaders on their side into a job, they'll have to speak for them and them alone. Who wants more freeloading other than the far, far left? That's what got us into this mess in the first place!

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